Word: ads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ad has not yet been placed, and the convention has not yet been called, but much of official Washington is beginning to be afraid that it might be. Since the one and only Constitutional Convention of 1787, there has rarely been such a determined effort to convene another. Altogether 27 state legislatures have voted to call a convention to approve an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. The National Taxpayers Union,* which is leading the drive, estimates that the necessary 34 states will be reached by summer...
...movement against growth has led to violence, often aimed at the influx of homosexuals. A local newspaper ad placed by a Baptist minister last month called for vigilantes to take action against "female impersonators and queers." Victims of recent violence include a man beaten with a pipe as he used a phone booth, a jogger almost run down by a car, a local museum director shot and killed, a restaurant owner beaten unconscious, and Authors Tennessee Williams and Dotson Rader, who were mugged. Two of those arrested were sons of prominent local families...
...ad board took a step in the right direction last spring when it decided to lift the extracurricular restraint rule at its discretion. But the attitude with which this university regards its undergraduates remains fairly intact; it is an attitude of condescension...
There are recent examples. Acknowledging the fact that exam period sick-outs" have reached a record high, rising 14 per cent from last year, the ad board has decided to deal with the matter in a rather typical, ne'er compromising, institutional fashion. First, the ad board perceives the problem thusly: how do we lower the number of sickouts? There are three or four options, according to Dean K. Whitla, director of instructional research and evaluation. An asterisk could be attached to the final grade on a student's transcript, indicating the grade was completed with a make-up exam...
...this is true, why should the ad board discourage sick people from petitioning for make-up exams? Assuming--as the administration seems to--that the list of medical excuses has risen because of abusers, is it really fair to inconvenience the truly ill in order to keep the malingerers in line? And why do more and more students feel compelled to duck their exams? These questions have been handled conveniently in the past two weeks, but not adequately...